Eduard Albert Meier is a Swiss citizen who is the source of many photographs of alleged unidentified flying objects (UFOs), which he presents in support of his claim that he is in contact with extraterrestrial beings. He also presented other material during the 1970s such as metal samples, sound recordings, and film footage. Meier reports regular contacts with extraterrestrials he calls the Plejaren.

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Alleged extraterrestrial contacts.

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Meier claims his extraterrestrial encounters began in 1942, at the age of five, when he met an elderly Plejaren man named “Sfath”. After Sfath’s death in 1953, Meier said, he began communicating with an extraterrestrial woman (though not a Plejaren) called “Asket”. All contacts ceased in 1964, he said, then resumed on January 28, 1975, when he met “Semjase”, the granddaughter of Sfath, and shortly thereafter another Plejaren man called “Ptaah”. Other Plejarens, including a woman named “Nera”, have since allegedly joined the dialog as well.

Meier founded a religious movement based on his alleged contacts with Semjase, called the “Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien” (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) in the late 1970s and established his “Semjase Silver Star Center”. The movement’s headquarters is in Switzerland.